 | Larry D. Mansch - 2005 - 246 páginas
...confidence and reassurance: Mr. President and Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the General Assembly: It is true, as has been said by the President of the Senate, that...perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his country, and so feeling... | |
 | William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - 2007 - 216 páginas
...with them the Washington theme of his Farewell Address to his friends in Springfield the day he left: I am deeply sensible of that weighty responsibility....perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his country, and so feeling... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 2007 - 476 páginas
...To the state legislature at Columbus that night Lincoln made a speech peculiar from several angles: "I cannot but know what you all know, that, without...perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his Country ... I turn, then,... | |
 | Stephen William Berry - 2007 - 318 páginas
...of all individuals that have ever been elevated to the Presidency," he told a crowd. "I am [a man] without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name." Regarding himself "but an accidental instrument" of a strange election, Lincoln joked that he was too... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1862 - 506 páginas
...l86l.' MR. PRESIDENT AND MR. SPEAKER, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF OHIO: — It is true, as has been said by the president of the Senate, that...perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his Country; and so feeling,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 844 páginas
...Columbus, Ohio MR. PRESIDENT AND MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY: — It is true, as has been said by the President of the Senate, that...people have called me. I am deeply sensible of that weight)' responsibility. I cannot but know what you all know, that, without a name, perhaps without... | |
 | 1924 - 784 páginas
...follows: Mr. President and Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the General Assembly of Ohio: It is true, as has been said by the President of the Senate, that...votes of the American people have called me. I am duly sensible of that weighty responsibility. I can but know what you all know, that, without a name... | |
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It is true, as has been said by the president of the Senate, that very great responsibility rests upon me in the position to which the votes of the American people have called me. I am deeply sensible of that weighty responsibility. I cannot but know... 
